During the 1950s, the Soviets had conducted a study on light aircraft carriers – after already noting that half of the Soviet’s large warships had been sunk in World War II by enemy aircraft. However, ...

Summary and Top 4 Points: During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy adopted a different approach to naval power projection compared to the U.S. Navy, which centered its strategy around aircraft carriers.

The development of ever-more-capable drones, plus the perceived vulnerability of large aircraft carriers to the latest anti-ship missiles, has convinced at least one naval observer that hybrid drone ...